2024
Improving Guideline-Concordant Care for Febrile Infants Through a Quality Improvement Initiative.
McDaniel C, Kerns E, Jennings B, Magee S, Biondi E, Flores R, Aronson P. Improving Guideline-Concordant Care for Febrile Infants Through a Quality Improvement Initiative. Pediatrics 2024, 153 PMID: 38682245, DOI: 10.1542/peds.2023-063339.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsClinical practice guidelinesFebrile infantsAmerican Academy of Pediatrics clinical practice guidelineSecondary measuresAAP clinical practice guidelinesPediatrics clinical practice guidelineInvasive bacterial infectionsQI collaborativeIntervention bundleAdherence to specific recommendationsDischarge of infantsGuideline-concordant careInfants aged 8Clinical practice guideline recommendationsPrimary measureQuality improvementOral antibioticsEmergency department dischargePositive urinalysisAssociated with improvementsQualifying infantsQuality improvement initiativesAdministered antibioticsGuideline recommendationsCerebrospinal fluid
2023
Prevalence of Urinary Tract Infection, Bacteremia, and Meningitis Among Febrile Infants Aged 8 to 60 Days With SARS-CoV-2
Aronson P, Louie J, Kerns E, Jennings B, Magee S, Wang M, Gupta N, Kovaleski C, McDaniel L, McDaniel C, Agbim C, Amadasun O, Beam N, Beamon B, Becker H, Bedard E, Biondi E, Boulet J, Bray-Aschenbrenner A, Brooks R, Chen C, Corboy J, Dawlabani N, De Angulo G, Demie S, Drexler J, Dudley N, Ellis A, Fath K, Frauenfelder A, Gill J, Graf T, Grageda M, Greening H, Griffin A, Groen A, Guernsey III D, Gustafson S, Hancock W, Iyer S, Jaiyeola P, Jayanth A, Jennings R, Kachan-Liu S, Kamat A, Kennedy I, Khateeb L, Khilji O, Kleweno E, Kumar A, Kwon S, La A, Laeven-Sessions P, Le K, Leazer R, Levasseur K, Lewis E, Maalouli W, Mackenzie B, Mahoney K, Margulis D, Maskin L, McCarty E, Monroy A, Morrison J, Myszewski J, Nadeau N, Nagappan S, Newcomer K, Nordstrom M, Nguyen D, O'Day P, Oumarbaeva-Malone Y, Parlin U, Peters S, Piroutek M, Quarrie R, Rice K, Romano T, Rooholamini S, Schroeder C, Segar E, Seitzinger P, Sharma S, Simpson B, Singh P, Sobeih Y, Sojar S, Srinivasan K, Sterrett E, Swift-Taylor M, Szkola S, Thull-Freedman J, Topoz I, Vayngortin T, Veit C, Ventura-Polanco Y, Wallace Wu A, Weiss L, Wong E, Zafar S. Prevalence of Urinary Tract Infection, Bacteremia, and Meningitis Among Febrile Infants Aged 8 to 60 Days With SARS-CoV-2. JAMA Network Open 2023, 6: e2313354. PMID: 37171815, PMCID: PMC10182434, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.13354.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPrevalence of UTIUrinary tract infectionSARS-CoV-2SARS-CoV-2-positive infantsSARS-CoV-2 testingFebrile infantsBacterial meningitisTract infectionsSARS-CoV-2 positivityMulticenter cross-sectional studyInflammatory marker levelsMedical record reviewProportion of infantsCross-sectional studyQuality improvement initiativesRecord reviewEmergency departmentMarker levelsLower proportionBacteremiaMAIN OUTCOMEMeningitisInfantsAge groupsBacterial infections